Tennessee Products & Chemical Corp. v. Reeves

This case presents the issue of determining the beginning date of the one year statute of limitations in Workmen’s Compensation Cases involving occupational diseases.

T.C.A. Sec. 50-1108 provides as follows:

The right to compensation for occupational disease shall be forever barred unless suit therefor is commenced within one (1) year after the beginning of the incapacity for work resulting from an occupational disease, and if death results from the occupational dis ease, unless a suit therefor be commenced within one (1) year thereafter; provided, however, that if upon the date of the death of…